My friend ran away!

[Tianna]

Yesterday I started to run Haunted Citadel on Epic and brought along a friend to help. A few stages later the epic boss showed up and I decided to fight him then. After I defeated Leviathan and returned to where I was in the Haunted Citadel I realized my friend had ran away! He was nowhere to be seen. What a coward, to be scared of a little sea monster :) Unfortunately without his help the dog ate me :(

Bug?

Tianna

[jonny0284]

They unfriended you.

I just purged my list a few days back of people sitting in the 'teens, 20's and 30's. I have started accepting many Requests in the 40-50-60's. I feel like I can do them a great service and justly will start playing harder and bringing themselves up in their stats. Just as all those in the 80-90-100+ have done for me over the past couple weeks.

[knights]

er... your friend would only help your in one stage, as in one set of fights leading up to a boss. Once you beat that stage and go to a new stage, you have to hire another friend... Its not a bug..

[Tianna]

They unfriended you.



Nope - the same friend was available for hire right after, and he is still there today. He just ran away after the epic boss showed up.

[Tianna]

er... your friend would only help your in one stage, as in one set of fights leading up to a boss. Once you beat that stage and go to a new stage, you have to hire another friend... Its not a bug..

That's not what happened - friend was with me in the Haunted Citadel, happily tagging along. Epic boss showed up in the middle of running Haunted Citadel, I went and defeated it (did not need to hire friends), then returned to the Haunted Citadel to the same exact run, stage 4/7 or something like that, friend was gone. Maybe he just got impatient, though Leviathan only took me a few minutes. I am certainly not happy with him now - I'll make sure to feed him to the dog one day.

[madfighters]

Maybe they were scared

[jonny0284]

Yes, because computer graphics get scared and run away. It's why I have blank spots on my desktop. Icons are bullying one another and offing themselves into the Trash.

[madfighters]

It's clearly a joke

[jonny0284]

Threads like this clutter up the list of pertinent helpful threads.

[Lord Of The Infernal]

You cannot EXIT with a friend while fighting adventure!
For example you took 3 main knight with you + 1 Friend, you.cleared stage 3/5 your first Knight HP is at 50/250 so you decided to EXIT from that stage to HEAL! and enter back to the stage again when your knights is healed, your FRIEND will be GONE once you Enter back

[Tianna]

Threads like this clutter up the list of pertinent helpful threads.

What I posted is not a joke, I was wondering if it was a bug or intended behavior (we don't allow any humor in these forums?). The game lets you exit a stage during a run (say, Haunted Citadel Epic) and then pick up where you left. When I hire a friend I expect them to stay for the duration of the run, unless I exit the run to start a new one elsewhere, of course, which wipes my progress. When the boss shows up, the game allows you to leave the run to fight the boss, and then you return where you were, say 4 or 5 or 6 out of 7. The friend should be there - right? Or if you leave for any reason your friend also goes away?

[Sifu]

What I posted is not a joke, I was wondering if it was a bug or intended behavior (we don't allow any humor in these forums?). The game lets you exit a stage during a run (say, Haunted Citadel Epic) and then pick up where you left. When I hire a friend I expect them to stay for the duration of the run, unless I exit the run to start a new one elsewhere, of course, which wipes my progress. When the boss shows up, the game allows you to leave the run to fight the boss, and then you return where you were, say 4 or 5 or 6 out of 7. The friend should be there - right? Or if you leave for any reason your friend also goes away?

If you leave for any reason, your friend goes away. This came up a number of times when they changed that behavior recently.

[Tianna]

You cannot EXIT with a friend while fighting adventure!
For example you took 3 main knight with you + 1 Friend, you.cleared stage 3/5 your first Knight HP is at 50/250 so you decided to EXIT from that stage to HEAL! and enter back to the stage again when your knights is healed, your FRIEND will be GONE once you Enter back

I see... I thought I could do that, but I must remember wrong - will need to test it. If it happens consistently it is then most likely by design. Still though... it would be nice if the friend would stay. I don't see the harm in it.

[drhawk]

What I posted is not a joke, I was wondering if it was a bug or intended behavior (we don't allow any humor in these forums?). The game lets you exit a stage during a run (say, Haunted Citadel Epic) and then pick up where you left. When I hire a friend I expect them to stay for the duration of the run, unless I exit the run to start a new one elsewhere, of course, which wipes my progress. When the boss shows up, the game allows you to leave the run to fight the boss, and then you return where you were, say 4 or 5 or 6 out of 7. The friend should be there - right? Or if you leave for any reason your friend also goes away?

We USED to be able to do that on Android (friends stay when you leave and return to battle mid-round). They took this ability away when guilds were introduced to Android.
Based on the comments by iOS players, what we have currently is the norm.

[KTran2013]

You cannot EXIT with a friend while fighting adventure!
For example you took 3 main knight with you + 1 Friend, you.cleared stage 3/5 your first Knight HP is at 50/250 so you decided to EXIT from that stage to HEAL! and enter back to the stage again when your knights is healed, your FRIEND will be GONE once you Enter back

Seconded. I can confirm this. In fact, this can be used to your advantage for leveling if you're smart enough with it. I won't go into it. Maybe it can be a secret.

Anyway, If I remember correctly, and our situations were the same, the friend will be ready for you to hire her/him once you restart the stage. So.. yeah.. there's a clue to the secret.

[Sifu]

Seconded. I can confirm this. In fact, this can be used to your advantage for leveling if you're smart enough with it. I won't go into it. Maybe it can be a secret.

Anyway, If I remember correctly, and our situations were the same, the friend will be ready for you to hire her/him once you restart the stage. So.. yeah.. there's a clue to the secret.

Can you confirm it does not count against your 10 per day, however? Even if you can use the same friend more than once, you might still only be able to do so 10 times per day.

[KTran2013]

Can you confirm it does not count against your 10 per day, however? Even if you can use the same friend more than once, you might still only be able to do so 10 times per day.

For me, and I'm not sure if it was a bug, but it didn't count against my 10 per day. Not sure about everyone else. It would require more testing, I think.
Anyway, keep in mind that this only happens if you do it in the middle of the stage. Don't complete it. haha